From the editors of the Spring 2010 Special Section—Entrepreneurial Education, Minority and International Business

Davis, Miles K.

Hackett, Sean M.

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New England Journal ofEntrepreneurshipVolume 13 | Number 1 Article 32010From the Associate Editors of Education/Minorityand International BusinessSean M. HackettWaseda UniversityMiles K. DavisShenandoah UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/nejePart of the Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations CommonsThis From the Editor is brought to you for free and open access by the Jack Welch College of Business at DigitalCommons@SHU. It has been acceptedfor inclusion in New England Journal of Entrepreneurship by an authorized editor of DigitalCommons@SHU. For more information, please contactferribyp@sacredheart.edu, lysobeyb@sacredheart.edu.Recommended CitationHackett, Sean M. and Davis, Miles K. (2010) "From the Associate Editors of Education/Minority and International Business," NewEngland Journal of Entrepreneurship: Vol. 13 : No. 1 , Article 3.Available at: https://digitalcommons.sacredheart.edu/neje/vol13/iss1/36 NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF ENTREPRENEURSHIPFrom the Associate Editors of Education/Minority and International Business:In the original Call for Papers for this special issue, we solicited manuscripts that would address the issues relevant to educat-ing the next wave of stakeholders vis-à-vis entrepreneurship education. We suggested four broad themes: Visionary Articles,Theory Articles, Critical Issues Articles, and Nuts & Bolts Articles.We received submissions from around the world.After deskreview and double-blind peer review processes were complete, we obtained a 15 percent acceptance rate.In her article on the use of self, Marty Mattare casts light on the relationships between and among self-efficacy, emotionalintelligence, interpersonal skills, and an entrepreneur’s success. Given the importance that venture capitalists place on bettingon a managerial team that can execute a strategic plan, we are delighted to include Mattare’s work in this issue and we imaginethat in the future more research will center on this topic, and more efforts in the classroom will focus on students’ use of self.In their examination of career and start-up expectations in South Korea, Ukraine, and the United States, Human et al. revealimportant differences across three cultures that have important implications for entrepreneurial activities and organizationsseeking to support entrepreneurs. Indeed, one of the coassociate editors is reminded of a student from a former Soviet bloccountry who informed him that his lectures about entrepreneurship were very surprising.When pressed to explain herself, thestudent said that in her country when an entrepreneur is successful, somebody from the government will come and take thecompany away from the entrepreneur, claiming it for himself.Thus, with this example in mind, we keenly understand that stud-ies like this one that offer a deeper understanding of how and why expectations vary across culture are essential to future effortstoward promoting more and better entrepreneurship.Lee et al. explore the relationship between educational attainment and business types among Korean-American immigrantentrepreneurs.The results of this study clearly point to the importance of education vis-à-vis entrepreneurship. Specifically, atti-tudes were fairly constant among study participants, but those with more education tended to conceive and build larger busi-nesses.Finally, the study by Sandhu and Jain suggested a strong interest in entrepreneurship among Malaysian students.Varying lev-els of interest between students majoring in business and students majoring in IT may suggest a need to provide different entre-preneurship course content to meet each group’s needs. Future research is required to determine whether this is so.In conclusion, we offer our heartfelt thanks to all of the authors who submitted manuscripts for review, and to all of thereviewers who provided the authors with invaluable advice and feedback.Sincerely,Sean M. Hackett, Ph.D. Miles Davis, Ph.D.New England Journal of Entrepreneurship1Hackett and Davis: From the Associate EditorsPublished by DigitalCommons@SHU, 2010

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